Lucky 13

Skill. Luck. You need both, plain and simple. Without skill, any luck you have will turn bad eventually. Any skill you have needs a little luck or nothing happens. I find that most bands who have a lot of skill may seem like they don't need a lot of luck but I'm sure that they do/did. Take Metallica, they have been around for a long time and they will always have a mass of fans, but think back to when they first started. They probably needed to be lucky finding people that liked what they did. Vice versa for bands bands like Pussycat Dolls, they had a lot of luck to end up where they are today, but without some cetain amount of skill they wouldn't have made it at all.

For almost all bands(ex. Hardcore metal bands) they are all lucky that they had the band Death pave the way for them, or else they might not exist today. MIGHT being the oprative word. I'm sure some band would have made it but it sure would have been harder nowadays. The same thing goes for a lot of rockbands and pop bands. Their genre wouldn't exist if it hadn't been for jazz bands back in the day. So thats a lucky break for them. So, in my opinion if your gonna be great you do need a certain degree of luck, but without skill, well lets just say there is such a thing as bad luck to. And those are my thoughts on luck and skill in the music industry.