I was writing a Wikipedia entry for Virgil Fox (the organist) and I wanted to quote his introduction to the Bach Toccata and Fugue in Dm (BWV565) from the album "Heavy Organ" because I thought that it nicely summed up his approach to music (especially as constrasted with that if E. Power Biggs), but I didn't want to run afoul of the copyright police, so I thought I'd ask here first.
The quote is:
''There is current in our land (and several European countries) at this moment a kind of nit-picking worship of historic im-po-tence. They say, they say, that Bach must not be interpreted and that he must have no emotion, his notes speak for themselves. You want know what that is? Pure unadulterated rot! Bach has the red blood. He has the communion with the people. He has all of this amazing spirit and imagine that you could put all the music on one side of the agenda with his great interpretation and great feeling and put the greatest man of all right up on top of a dusty shelf underneath some glass case in a museum and say that he must not be interpreted! They're full of you know what and they are so untalented that they had to hide behind this thing 'cause they couldn't get in the House of Music any other way!''
I would argue that it would fall under any reasonable definition of fair use, but I'd like to get a second opinion before I cause any trouble.
Just for future reference, assuming quoting the text is permissible, where would attaching an MP3 of that introduction fall? I don't think it is worth it in this case, but I was just wondering where the edges are.
Is there a standard way to footnote such entries?
Thanks,
Mark H. Zellers