Since at least the mid '80s, Chicago's instrumental, "Anxiety's Moment," has run through my mind when I'm facing a deadline. When I'm starting to make significant progress, I hear the band's horn section playing the song's victorious-sounding ascending scale.
That's one way of rewarding myself for sticking to a task and getting results. It's also refreshing to remember that a rock band can be more than a rock band. If you have enough instruments, and your players have the chops, you can incorporate Classical elements in an interlude that audiophiles like me will remember for decades.
