“Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.”
Ringo Starr (1940) British musician, former member of the Beatles
"It Don't Come Easy" (co-written by George Harrison)
Attributed to Charlie Sheen by Jon Cryer https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/jon-cryer-reveals-inside-insane-782410
“Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.”
Ringo Starr (1940) British musician, former member of the Beatles
"It Don't Come Easy" (co-written by George Harrison)
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
Context: You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
Ellen Goodman (1941) American journalist and writer
Attributed
“Good dreams don't come cheap
You've got to pay for them.”
Harry Chapin (1942–1981) American musician
There Only Was One Choice
Song lyrics, Dance Band on the Titanic (1977)
Walter Reuther (1907–1970) Labor union leader
Opening address of the twelfth constitutional convention of the UAW, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 10, 1949, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 41
1940s, Opening address of the twelfth constitutional convention of the UAW (1949)
Sadhguru (1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian
Economic Times http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-12-21/news/35953428_1_human-body-indian-business-isha-foundation, 21 December 2012 <br class="br">Sourced from newspapers and magazines
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 56e
“Work a lifetime to pay off a house — You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.”
Arthur Miller book Death of a Salesman
Willy
Death of a Salesman (1949)