Theatre takes place all the time - wherever one is - and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.
When we separate music from life we get is art.
All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear I know nothing.
The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.