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(On performing) We do this because we have to. Do we look like we're having fun?
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Mark Mothersbaugh Television interview (1980)

 

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"My own people condemned my action (performing Koothu and Kutiyattam outside the precincts of the temples), Once, after I had given performances at Vaikkom, they even thought about excommunicating me. I desired that this art should survive the test of time. That was precisely why I ventured outside the temple"
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