It doesn't seem to make sense. There is a common phrase "pay the piper" which means you should do what you said you would do, or there will be consequences (based on the story of the pied piper, who lured the children away when the town wouldn't pay him for getting rid of the rats), but I have never heard the lesson stated quite that way.

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The correct sayings is: He who pays the piper calls the tune.

If you are paying for something, you are in control of it. If I am paying for the movie tickets, I get to decide which movie.

secret na malupet....:-) Who ever will pay the producer will control production. He who pays the piper calls the tune.

Wess Brot ich ess, des Lied ich sing is a German proverb and literally means I sing the song of whose bread I eat An equivalent English proverb would be He who pays the piper, calls the tune.

If the audience wants to hear something, the piper will always play a tune, to get it forward to all of them