My itunes music is grayed out so it wont play on my iphone?

My itunes library is showing on my iphone 4s but most of the content is 'grayed' out and i can't access it...any ideas?

Morning G4RNR,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
You can also manually manage music and videos on your device. Manually managing your device allows you to choose just the songs and videos that you want to have with you.
For more information on this, take a look at this article:
Managing content manually on iPhone, iPad, and iPod
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1535
Best of luck,
Mario

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My itunes music is grayed out so it wont play on my iphone?

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