  We investigate the effect of meson loops on the spectrum of quark states. We
demonstrate that in general quark states do not tend to get very broad if their
coupling to the continuum increases, but instead they decouple from the latter
in the large coupling limit. We ascribe this effect to the essentially
nonperturbative unitarization procedure involved. In the meantime, some quark
resonances behave very differently and demonstrate collectivity in the sense
that their pole trajectories span a wide, as compared to the level spacing,
region therefore acquiring contributions from multiple bare poles rather than
from the closest neighbors. While the actual calculations are done within
particular, very simplified models, it is argued that the findings might well
be general.
