Maxwell
Maxwell
Grammy Award-nominated R&B artist whose albums Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite and BLACKsummers'night were both Platinum-certified.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionR&B Singer
Date of Birth23 May 1973
CountryUnited States of America
hate dont-hate dislike
I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.
independence mediocrity intolerance
Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.
book museums trying
[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table.
attitude party night
[On Hollywood:] I had gone there expecting to see parties that reflected the stock-in-trade of the movies - glamour. Instead, I found the same attitude toward parties that European peasants had for baths. It was something to be done methodically every Saturday night ...
new-york party people
To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.
leisure use knows
Only those who have earned leisure know how to use it profitably.
trying lasts settling
don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.
singers psalms righteousness
The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner.
years boredom long
People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently forget the long, unrelieved stretches of misery and boredom.
spring good-man kind
Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.
cocktails culinary invention
Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!
party food cooking
Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.
party fighting fire
Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an effervescent chemical reaction on one another at a party. They invariably have a marvelous time trading banalities in the absence of competition. Clichés roll trippingly off the tongue like sparkling epigrams and trite observations acquire depth sinking into receptive minds.
party oil cocktails
The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil