Xavier Rudd Quotes

#1. Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

Gore Vidal

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

Xavier Rudd

#3. Most of my instruments are handmade.

Xavier Rudd

#4. I write the most sexiest records out.

Kool Keith

#5. When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.

Taylor Lautner

#6. Time does not care how precious it is, how hard you are working not to squander it. Time passes.

Melissa Kantor

#7. I am always doing what I can't do so I may learn how to do it.

Vincent Van Gogh

#8. 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.

Xavier Rudd

#9. I'd love to go out with you, but I'd hate to deprive some village of its idiot.

Lois Greiman

#10. 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.

Xavier Rudd

#11. I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.

Xavier Rudd

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

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#13. It's the perfect solution. We argue all the time. We can't stand each other. It's like we're already married.

Lisa Kleypas

#14. Follow, follow the sun, and which way the wind blows, when this day is done. Breathe, breathe in the air. Set your intentions. Dream with care.

Xavier Rudd

#15. She gave up the rest. The relief was physical, like releasing a long tight breath that had crowded her lungs for too long, letting it go because it was stale, the oxygen was gone.

Jennifer Egan

#16. 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

#17. A silent dark ... as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more ...

Dean Koontz

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

Xavier Rudd

#19. 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

#20. 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.

Xavier Rudd

#21. The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.

Adyashanti

#22. Every Westerner is jubilating that the Berlin Wall has fallen. Something worst than the Berlin Wall is in Palestine; and nobody is talking about it.

Yahya Jammeh

#23. 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.

Xavier Rudd