Creativity Quote by John Lennon

Celebrity rarely reads as pure adrenaline in hindsight; Lennon remembers it as weather. The “eye of a hurricane” metaphor does two jobs at once: it captures the deafening force of Beatlemania while also naming the eerie calm inside it, that suspended pocket where everything is happening and yet you’re oddly detached from your own life. A hurricane isn’t just loud. It’s impersonal, systemic, bigger than any one person. Lennon’s phrasing quietly argues that fame isn’t something you “have” so much as something that happens to you.

The second sentence turns the metaphor into a dissociative punchline: “You’d wake up in a concert.” That’s not just a vivid image; it’s a loss of agency. Waking implies you weren’t fully conscious when you arrived. The concert, the supposed peak of purpose for a musician, becomes a place you stumble into like a stranger, blinking under lights you didn’t choose. “Wow, how did I get here?” isn’t humblebrag awe; it’s a sideways admission of disorientation, of identity lagging behind circumstance.

Context matters: Lennon is talking from inside the machinery of 1960s mass media, when the Beatles became a global product as much as a band. The line suggests the central paradox of that era’s pop stardom: the crowd’s certainty about who you are can make you less sure yourself. It’s a memory of fame as vertigo, not victory.