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"Steve Gadd - Danny Duggin"
"Rip Torn - Walter Fox"
"See, it's not that we don't want to have our heart torn out, it's just that we're trying to make a ballsy record here."
"Lou Reed - Steve Kunelian"
"Paul Simon - Jonah Levin"
"[Reading Matty's song lyrics to Marion] "Hey, baby, don't be cruel. I'm gonna pick you up and we'll have a date at the pizza parlor. You can have a pizza, and I can have one, too. But you didn't want a pizza, so I said 'So long, babe.'" See that? And you were worried that he was going to be a songwriter."
"Michael Pearlman - Matty Levin"
"Well, what do you expect? "A grown man living in a kid's world." What do you think I'm doing out there? Cashing in my E tickets for a ride through the Magic Kingdom? You think I'm playing my gigs in The Haunted House?"
"Daniel Stern - Hare Krishna"
"Joan Hackett - Lonnie Fox"
"Mare Winningham - Modeena Dandridge"
"Tony Levin - John Dibatista"
"Richard Tee - Clarence Franklin"
"Allen Garfield - Cal van Damp"
"Harry Shearer - Bernie Wepner"
"Eric Gale - Lee-Andrew Parker"
"Blair Brown - Marion Levin"
"Sarah King - Barbara Dane"
"Dave Van Ronk: You can call it country or blues or rock'n'roll - we all keep rewriting the same song."
"Will Price - Joe Boyd"
"Everyone asks where these songs come from, Sylvie. But then you watch their faces, and they're not asking where the songs come from. They're asking why the songs didn't come to them."
"He defied everyone to change everything."
"Your songs are like an oil painting at the dentist's office."
"Joshua Henry - Brownie McGhee"
"Molly Jobe - CBS Receptionist"
"Eric Berryman - Tom Wilson"
"You know, you're kind of an asshole, Bob."
"More and more people have been showing up, and they're bringing their teaspoons. Teaspoons for justice, and teaspoons for peace, and teaspoons for love, and that's what we do. And, gosh, you showed up, Bobby, and damn it, if you didn't bring a shovel."
"James Austin Johnson - Gerdes M.C."
"Kayli Carter - Maria Muldaur"
"Laura Kariuki - Becka"
"Ryan Harris Brown - Mark Spoelstra"
"Stephen Carter Carlsen - Paul Stookey"
"David Alan Basche - John Hammond"
"Will Harrison - Bob Neuwirth"
"Big Bill Morganfield - Jesse Moffette"
"Scoot McNairy - Woody Guthrie"
"Norbert Leo Butz - Alan Lomax"
"Dan Fogler - Albert Grossman"
"Charlie Tahan - Al Kooper"
"Eli Brown - Mike Bloomfield"
"Nick Pupo - Peter Yarrow"
"Eriko Hatsune - Toshi Seeger"
"P. J. Byrne - Harold Leventhal"
"Elle Fanning - Sylvie Russo"
"Edward Norton - Pete Seeger"
"Monica Barbaro - Joan Baez"
"The ballad of a true original."
"Timothée Chalamet - Bob Dylan"
"Boyd Holbrook - Johnny Cash"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.