The person who refuses to quit even after a hundred rejections is the one who's going to get to the top.
If you've ever felt like giving up, this will change your mind.
As a DJ and producer, people send me songs every single day. They want me to produce their song, release it, make it a hit, whatever. I've had thousands sent to me over the years and I've only ever released one that I didn't write.
But there was this one guy who sent me songs, and he was different from everyone else. Not famous. Not connected. I didn't even know him personally, but I definitely knew his name — because he was absolutely relentless. He'd send me demos every few weeks without fail. For five years.
Sometimes I'd listen when I had the time. His songs were good, but not the kind of thing that made me stop in my tracks. Deep down, though, I had a lot of respect for him. Because when everyone else would have quit, this guy just kept going.
Then in April this year, he sent me another demo. I was in the back of a car, scrolling through emails. I almost didn't listen to it. But something made me hit play, and I literally stopped everything I was doing. This song had the magic I'd been searching for. The fire. The feeling that separates a good song from an exceptional one.
Straight away I messaged him: bro, send me the stems right now. Got to work producing it. Two weeks later, I played our collaboration on the EDC main stage, and it actually worked.
That guy is Bobby Harvey. And today our track Waterfalls just hit number one on the Billboard Dance Chart.
Most people think it's talent that gets you to the top in music. In reality, it's the person who refuses to quit even after a hundred rejections. This guy didn't have any special connections. He wasn't famous. All he had was the willingness to keep going when literally anyone else would have stopped.
