Why doesn't my music on my laptop iTunes account sync to my iPhone?

I have the iCloud. I have authorized my laptop. Do I need to purchase iMatch to allow the titles I've burned from my own CDs to be added to the iCloud? Prior to getting my iPhone I had been unwilling to use iTunes due to problems between my wife and children's accounts, so I have never purchased any of my files from the iTunes but built my collection on converting my CDs to audio files. Hopefully this is enough info to get things corrected.
Thank you.

Have you physically connected the device to the computer and told iTunes to sync the content to it?
iCloud does not sync not iTunes purchased content, or any media for that matter, to the device, it simply makes the iTunes purchased media available for streaming from the cloud (unless I am completely misunderstanding iCloud).

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