A DJ with an Ego Is a No Go!

0:00 Jonathan here, The DJ Tutor

Alright guys, Jonathan here, The DJ Tutor. So YouTube is there to just express yourself, just put stuff on, do whatever you want, and also give advice, demonstrations, wacky videos and goodness knows what. Well this video is about giving you some good advice. Now I've been in the DJ industry for quite a while, in fact I... God knows how many years, but quite a long time. The strange thing is that I can remember... Going back to the mid-90s and a friend of mine in Aberyron when I used to do dance events saying, oh he's just had two twins and you know two little girls and I saw him last Saturday at an 18th birthday party I did and I said how are your twins and they said they're fine. They're now mothers. I mean they've got their own kids. It's like it's frightening but what is this video about?

1:28 You know, egotistical bastards

You act as a DJ. You know, egotistical bastards. They felt as though they were the best thing since sliced bread. People used to bow down to them. Look, he's the DJ, she's the DJ. 30 years ago there weren't that many female DJs. You know, wow, look, and the DJ, some of them, most of them, who knows, used to feel as though they were gods. A DJ should be grounded, should not be self-centered, Just happily meet in a cafe and chat to, and they wouldn't start talking to you and the conversation to people. You know, oh hello, what do you do? I'm a technician, what do you do? I'm a DJ. It's like, so what if you're a DJ? Who gives a flying fuck? Nowadays, a DJ should be grounded, level-headed, and just be true to themselves.

Simply because you'll find you will actually get more work if you are not big headed. You will. Management now like to see, hear and just communicate with people who are grounded, level-headed and true to themselves and honest family men, family ladies, teenagers who... All are just teenagers, not big-headed and just feel as though they own the world. So be the person that you are and don't be someone who is just feeling as though just because they have a controller, a laptop and 500 MP3s they can rule the world because you can't because you're pretty much... The same as probably another two or three million people out there. So to get above the rest, apart from other aspects of how you can promote yourself and how you can rise above other DJs, one good way is to be yourself. Practice and enjoy, thank you.

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