IPhone 5s starts playing music by itself when headphones are attached?

I can connect it to my speaker dock and it will not do this, or not have my headphones connected and it will not do this. Occasionally the pause/play button will not read on my headphones, and then it will stop. Please someone help me out, it's driving me nuts. It happens every few seconds I have my headphones in.

very simple men, its going on.

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