Absorbed Quotes

We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed. And should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old - "Shall I speak for thee to the King or the Captain of the host?" - we should reply with the Shunamite woman: "Nay, Sir, for we dwell among our own people."

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.