Is it possible to store all my itunes music in the cloud and retrieve as needed from my iphone

Bought my wife an 16G Iphone 5 for Christmas. She went to upgrade to 32G the day after Christmas and was told she'd have to pay a $35 restocking fee? She needs the extra storage for music thus my question: is it possible to store all my itunes music in the cloud and retrieve as needed?

Good morning K
A couple of things.
     1. Anything you buy from itunes can be stored on the icloud free. It doesn't count against storage.
     2. Music not from itunes can be stored in the cloud free up to the storage limit.
     3. If you use and pay for itunes match (25$ a year) it will match as much of your music against the Apple      library and then only store your non-matched music in the cloud. This is great for large libraries.
     4. When you request a song from the cloud it needs to be connected to the net to download it so you can play                    it. It then is stored on your iphone. You may eventually want to delete it from the iphone but it will                      be available in the icloud for future download.
                 Just don't agree to "delete from icloud also.
Cheers

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