How do you prevent songs from playing on iphone (iOS7)?

My iphone keeps playing music that's not on it. I have albums with songs that I don't wish to hear and didn't download when I purchased them. Some have never been on my Mac. I also have Christmas music that I don't want to hear unless it's December. But my phone keeps shuffling these songs up. Or the interviews that come with some albums… it's relentless.
When I tap on the listing button, it indicates which song on the album is playing and in the cases I have looked at, has the cloud download button beside it.
What I'd like to know is how to keep these songs in their boxes until I want to hear them. Any ideas? For what it's worth, I don't understand how this bug/feature exists. I don't want to see this music, let alone listen to it (and be forced to stop what I'm doing to skip the track).
Thanks,
Ken

Thanks. That worked. I already had the automatic download settings off but didn't know about the hide songs option. Everything looks better now.
After doing so, most of the songs vanished but not all. I did a restore on the device and while trying to synch the songs back onto the phone, which took a while to get started (the usage bar in iTunes only showed 'apps' and 'other', lots of 'other', meanwhile, the Music app on the phone indicated that it was empty), I noticed a section in itunes under all the checklists that seemed to be related to manually added songs. It's gone now and I don't really want to try to get it back but it implied that if you manually dragged a song onto the device, the section would auto-generate and the song would show up there. Extra weirdness is that the song is one of those never downloaded songs that's greyed out when looking at the album.
Anyway, thanks again.
Ken

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