Xavier Rudd

We're not just on the earth, we're of the earth.

— Xavier Rudd

I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.

— Xavier Rudd

For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy…

— Xavier Rudd

I do pinch myself, like when shows in non-English speaking countries are sold out, and people are singing my lyrics. I don't…

— Xavier Rudd

Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for…

— Xavier Rudd

Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical…

— Xavier Rudd

My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good…

— Xavier Rudd

Follow, follow the sun, and which way the wind blows, when this day is done. Breathe, breathe in the air. Set your…

— Xavier Rudd

The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space…

— Xavier Rudd

The music industry is not set up well at all, environmentally. But I sing about what I feel, and I'm very inspired…

— Xavier Rudd

I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music…

— Xavier Rudd

Surf culture and surfing for me are two completely different things. Surf culture has become very - it's a very commercial, competitive…

— Xavier Rudd

It's about listening to the land and being patient and being ready to absorb our dreaming or our path or our destiny…

— Xavier Rudd

I love New Zealand and don't get to come there much. The south coast of Australia and New Zealand have a similar…

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My music is roots music: it's a combination of growing up on the coast and mucking around with wood and wooden tones…

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It's always great to visit Taranaki; it's beautiful, and I've caught some great waves there.

— Xavier Rudd

Do what you will while you're able, find what it is that you seek.

— Xavier Rudd

The spirit of yidaki is like a guardian for the song and the journey of my music.

— Xavier Rudd

Most of my instruments are handmade.

— Xavier Rudd

It's kind of like some kind of church for me, playing live. Each show, good people from different pockets of the world…

— Xavier Rudd

Playing yidaki, for me, is a meditation. It's incredibly deep breathing, but also, it's a structured process where you're circulating air.

— Xavier Rudd

My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid. I just sort…

— Xavier Rudd

I was always drawn to the didgeridoo.

— Xavier Rudd

The best wisdom comes from the hardest struggle.

— Xavier Rudd

When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I…

— Xavier Rudd