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Valid use of <q>, <blockquote> and <cite>

Is this valid use of q, blockquote and cite?

<q>Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans</q>
<cite>John Lennon</cite>

or

<blockquote>Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans</blockquote>
<cite>John Lennon</cite>
Solution

  • <q>

    The q element represents some phrasing content quoted from another source. 

    <p>And then he said <q>I heart HTML5.</q></p>

    <cite>

    The cite element represents the title of a work (e.g. a book, a paper, an essay, a poem, a score, a song, a script, a film, a TV show, a game, a sculpture, a painting, a theatre production, a play, an opera, a musical, an exhibition, a legal case report, etc). This can be a work that is being quoted or referenced in detail (i.e. a citation), or it can just be a work that is mentioned in passing.

    <p>My favourite book is <cite>Introducing HTML5</cite> by Bruce and Remy.</p>

    <blockquote>

    The blockquote element represents a section that is quoted from another source. Content inside a blockquote must be quoted from another source, whose address, if it has one, may be cited in the cite attribute.

    <blockquote>What we have here is a quotation from another source.</blockquote>