The spirit of yidaki is like a guardian for the song and the journey of my music. Xavier Rudd More Quotes by Xavier Rudd More Quotes From Xavier Rudd 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 growing-up music fire roots 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. Xavier Rudd new music space love 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 name white sound people 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 deep me you process 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 destiny path time patience We're not just on the earth, we're of the earth. Xavier Rudd just earth