How do I stop purchased music downloads once they've started?

Just bought the machine. Saw all my puchased music and went crazy. Hit the icon on adout half ofthem. Now it appears it will take until the apocolyse for them all to download. How can I stop this process and merelymigrate the music onto my machine from my Mac itunes?

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Automatic Downloads are enabled. To disable it, open Settings > iTunes and App Stores > Automatic Downloads, and turn off the music option on the iPhone, so your music will not be downloaded automatically

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