Atahualpa Yupanqui is one of the most legendary figures of national folklore. Today we want to share 10 phrases that he left us:

Music is one of the things that can save the world, because a man who seeks and finds and loaves hours and days and light years, through generations, with beauty, what else can he want a better world?

I will walk through the hills, jungles and plains all my life, bringing coplas to your hope, dear land.

When you give up payment and start to repeat, you throw the horse forward and the soul pulls back.

I was always goodbye... an arm up, a yaravi breaking in the stones when I wanted to stay there came the wind came the night and took me with her.

I am a singer of forgotten arts who walks around the world so that no one will forget what is unforgettable: poetry and traditional music of Argentina.

A deep desire lives in me: to be one day the face of a shadow without any image, and without history. To be only the echo of a barely chord song that points to his brothers. Freedom of the spirit.

I don't know if I'm a believer. When my father was asked that, he would jokingly answer that he was doubtful. As far as I do myself, I'm not religious. I've got some mystical measles out there that suddenly worries me.

My mom said, there are things you don't buy in the pharmacy on the corner. You have to do the enormous and costly diligence of acquiring them with the spirit, and that costs.

I'm not afraid of death, what I do have respect for is the trance, the going there. I confess I'm curious to know what this is about.

The guitar with all its light, with all the sorrows and paths, and doubts. The guitar with its cry and its aurora, sister of my blood and my care, forever!

Atahualpa Yupanqui