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You haven't been lucky because you haven't made yourself ready for it, or demonstrated that you're ready. (If you only take the beaten path in life that is the first sign that you're not ready. It's a form of surrender to the idea that things won't feel certain. Brian Eno: Louis Pasteur said, “Chance favors only the prepared mind.” People would always say to me, “Oh, you’re so lucky!” And things have worked out well for me! But I thought, Well, luck is being ready, in some ways. The fact that I joined Roxy Music in the first place—which was the way I got into being a professional musician—you could say it was luck. I happened to bump into this guy and join this band. But it wasn’t luck, because I deliberately hadn’t gotten a job—because I didn’t want a fucking boring job! I wanted to be ready and open for when something came up. This opportunity arose and it didn’t look like it was going to be much at the time; it was a little thing. But I thought, It’s certainty more interesting than anything I've got going on right now. So I was ready for it. I’d kept myself ready for it.")