Pt. Budhaditya Mukherjee speaks on Ustad Vilayat Khan
In a conversation with the critic Amarendra Dhaneshwar, he (Pt. Budhaditya Mukherjee) says "Ustad Vilayat Khansaheb has been my idol. I have been brought up in the same tradition. Actually, I have heard him only six times. However, his influence is deep and all-pervading. The first time I heard Ustad Vilayat Khansaheb was when I was ten. I can never forget that experience. His music was a tremendous source of inspiration. Later on, I could rationalize what I felt. Khansaab was executing the very things I was learning, with a degree of perfection which got permanently imprinted on my subconscious."
