Meaning:
one who pays for something controls it.
Examples:
- We have limited input, because he who pays the piper calls the tune.
- We also know that he who pays the piper calls the tune.
- In English we have a phrase: "He who pays the piper calls the tune."
- He who pays the piper calls the tune or, as we say in my part of the world, ‘No money, no music’.
- Even children know that he who pays the piper calls the tune, and it is the Member States who pay.
- However, this should not be at the expense of the patent holders, whose innovations help our economy to develop. Instead, the principle should be: he who pays the piper calls the tune.