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. Xavier Rudd Read Quote
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. Xavier Rudd Read Quote
Surf culture and surfing for me are two completely different things. Surf culture has become very – it’s a very commercial, competitive thing, fashionable. With all due respect to the ‘Surfer Dude’ movie, I think the ‘Surfer Dude’ movie reflects that, reflects what surfing’s become, but I come from a place where the surf industry began. Xavier Rudd Read Quote
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. Xavier Rudd Read Quote
My music is roots music: it’s a combination of growing up on the coast and mucking around with wood and wooden tones and sounds, salt, sand, fire, dogs, and heaps of brothers. Xavier Rudd Read Quote
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. Xavier Rudd Read Quote
My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I’d reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he’d tell me to wait on the shoulder. I’d see him coming through the barrel, and he’d just scream at me to go. I’d drop in, and he’d give me a hoot from behind – I’ve always loved it. Xavier Rudd Read Quote
Didgeridoo is a name that white people gave it when they came to Australia, from the sound that it makes. Its traditional name is yidaki. Xavier Rudd Read Quote
