Words matter. These are the best Xavier Rudd Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The music industry is not set up well at all, environmentally. But I sing about what I feel, and I’m very inspired by activists and friends that I get to connect with.
Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It’s become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
I have Aboriginal roots on my father’s side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
It’s about listening to the land and being patient and being ready to absorb our dreaming or our path or our destiny slowly, with patience, being ready to absorb that when it’s time and not chasing it.
I was always drawn to the didgeridoo.
Playing yidaki, for me, is a meditation. It’s incredibly deep breathing, but also, it’s a structured process where you’re circulating air.
The best wisdom comes from the hardest struggle.
It’s kind of like some kind of church for me, playing live. Each show, good people from different pockets of the world come and open their soul and let their spirits mingle and dance. That energy comes up through me, and all I do is channel it; it’s like a circular motion and very sacred.
I do pinch myself, like when shows in non-English speaking countries are sold out, and people are singing my lyrics. I don’t think I’ll ever lose that; I’m always appreciative every day of the support I have as an artist, because I’m not a commercial artist.
We’re not just on the earth, we’re of the earth.
The spirit of yidaki is like a guardian for the song and the journey of my music.
I love New Zealand and don’t get to come there much. The south coast of Australia and New Zealand have a similar vibration, and a lot of the music comes from this kind of space.
The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don’t intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it’s a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical point of view, you improve all the time. Not only that, but you learn how to deal with people and deal with energy in a live setting.
My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid. I just sort of taught myself whatever was around. If there were instruments around, I’d play them. I always liked the idea of not being shown but coming up with my own energetic connection to the instrument.
