29 Quotes by Xavier Rudd

The best wisdom comes from the hardest struggle.

Most of my instruments are handmade.

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.

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.

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 was always drawn to the didgeridoo.

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.

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.